Date: October 12, 2010
Time: 1:30 AM
Location: Arbor street, Mount Vernon, WA
Time: 1:30 AM
Location: Arbor street, Mount Vernon, WA
The picture below is a replica I made of the sky as I saw it a couple nights ago (note that East is on the top, West the bottom, etc. because I was not facing North and this way is less confusing for me). The points have been drawn fairly large so that they’re able to be seen.
One constellation I think I saw was Auriga (labeled a on the “map”). Auriga has a really bright star as one of the points of its circle-like head which I was able to make out but I didn’t see any parts of the tail. The azimuth was about 40⁰ (northeast) and the altitude 15⁰.
Secondly, I thought I was looking at Cassiopeia (labeled b) but I often get it the larger W-shaped constellation confused with it. The azimuth was 350⁰ (northwest) and the altitude was 40⁰.
There were other stars out obviously but they were all pretty small and not very identifiable for me.
One constellation I think I saw was Auriga (labeled a on the “map”). Auriga has a really bright star as one of the points of its circle-like head which I was able to make out but I didn’t see any parts of the tail. The azimuth was about 40⁰ (northeast) and the altitude 15⁰.
Secondly, I thought I was looking at Cassiopeia (labeled b) but I often get it the larger W-shaped constellation confused with it. The azimuth was 350⁰ (northwest) and the altitude was 40⁰.
There were other stars out obviously but they were all pretty small and not very identifiable for me.
Great!
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